Science

Big Five personality traits

Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism

cost/benefit of electricity generation methods

Considers all factors, including pollution, environmental impact on animal habitats, human safety. production costs, uptime, maintenance, availability of fuels, etc. The calibrated results can change over time with technological innovation or depletion of nonrenewable resources, for example.

James Webb Space Telescope

Webb will be able to see what the universe looked like around a quarter of a billion years (possibly back to 100 million years) after the Big Bang, when the first stars and galaxies started to form. --nasa.gov

Satoshi Nakamoto (Bitcoin)

person or persons who developed bitcoin, authored the bitcoin white paper, and... devised the first blockchain database --wikipedia

Planet Nine (theory)

Request: Astronomers suspect the existence of a ninth planet in our solar system. Are they searching for a phantom or does the existence of this planet calibrate as true?

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Masks, and the Deadly Falsehoods Surrounding Them

Extensive discussion and compilation of scientific studies on mask efficacy as regards Covid-19.

B.F. Skinner, the work of

Considering free will to be an illusion, Skinner saw human action as dependent on consequences of previous actions, a theory he would articulate as the principle of reinforcement: --wikipedia

Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience

"cardiologist Dr. Pim van Lommel offers ground-breaking research into whether or not our consciousness survives the death of our body." --amazon

missing tile syndrome

"As Dennis Prager explains, we often focus on the missing tile(s) in our lives, which robs us of happiness. In five minutes, learn how to fix your focus."

Dr. Scott Atlas devastates government COVID policy (video)

A speech streamed yesterday from Hillsdale College. Watch it before YouTube censors it (or we will have to look elsewhere)

Jay Bhattacharya: The Case Against Lockdowns (video)

Lex Fridman Podcast, video included. It's over two hours long, so use the chapter information.

gain of function (GoF) virus research

studies with the potential to enhance the pathogenicity or transmissibility of potential pandemic pathogens (PPPs) --National Institutes of Health

The Illusion of Truth (video)

Study-based conclusions about how we discern truth, with "cognitive ease" being a major factor. Video from Veritasium embedded.

COVID-19: Amplification of Public Health Consequences by Media Exposure

In the past, "media coverage of events had unintended consequences for those at relatively low risk for direct exposure, leading to potentially severe public health repercussions" --American Psychological Association

computer virus

"a piece of code which is capable of copying itself and typically has a detrimental effect, such as corrupting the system or destroying data" -- Google dictionary